AOR 3.1 · Arnold Skolnick
Canned Heat
Iron Butterfly
Blood Sweat and Tears
Santana
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sly and the Family Stone
Joan Baez
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Richie Havens
Arlo Guthrie
Incredible String Band
Ten Years After
Jeff Beck Group
Sweetwater
The Band
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Keef Hartley
Mountain
Ravi Shankar
The Who
Janis Joplin
Joe Cocker
Tim Hardin
Quill
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Grateful Dead
Woodstock — "3 Days of Peace & Music" (Arnold Skolnick)
On Friday, August 15, 1969, a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, became the most famous field in the history of American music — and the story our chronicle can tell about that day is not the mud or the half-million, but the poster. Woodstock had two. The first was the one almost nobody saw. When the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was still planned for a site in Wallkill, New York, the organizers commissioned David Edward…
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BG-133 — Fillmore West
On Thursday, August 15, 1968, The Who played the last of their three-night Fillmore West stand — the closing bracket of the opening leg of BG-133, again over the James Cotton Blues Band and Magic Sam (per billgrahamfoundation and thewho.com). A year later to the day, the world's attention was three …
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AOR-3.2 — Wallkill, New York
Before Woodstock was Woodstock, it was going to be Wallkill — and there is a poster to prove it. In the spring of 1969 the Woodstock Music & Art Fair was planned for a site in Wallkill, New York, and the organizers commissioned David Edward Byrd, a Fillmore East poster veteran, to advertise it. Byr…
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